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Secretary tillerson sathat isis remains a priority, but the u. S. Ambassador nikki haley focused on president assad. Joining me from washington is derek chollet. Here in new york is robert ford, a former ambassador to syria. Im pleased to have both of them. Let me begin with the obvious. Tell me your assessment of this straight. Strike. Was a i think the strike good idea. I saw a statement from secretary of defense mettas that it destroyed matches that it destroyed 20 of their airplanes. But he played a price paid a price. It is determined to a limited, defined, discrete objectives and i think...

Rose welcome to the program. We begin this evening with syria and talk to Derek Chollet and robert ford. Weve got to deliver real pain on assad. And i think theres also the russian calculation as robert just mentioned. There is no question russia, which is more engaged in syria today than it was four or five years ago in terms of number of personnel on the ground, knew that assad had this stock pile, or there is every reason to believe that we knew he had it. The question is whether they were surprised by this use of chemical weapons. And if in fact theyre angry that he has done it because it ...

Rose welcome to the program. We begin this evening with syria and talk to Derek Chollet and robert ford. Weve got to deliver real pain on assad. And i think theres also the russian calculation as robert just mentioned. There is no question russia, which is more engaged in syria today than it was four or five years ago in terms of number of personnel on the ground, knew that assad had this stock pile, or there is every reason to believe that we knew he had it. The question is whether they were surprised by this use of chemical weapons. And if in fact theyre angry that he has done it because it ...

Where he said, you know, china shouldnt be invited to dinner, theyre our enemy. An here in the last week alone he has involved us more in syrias civil war than ever before, the First American military strike against Bashar Alassad government. He has alienated russia which, in fact, said that their Prime Minister said their relationship is quote completely ruined. And he invited the chinese leader to dinner. Rose we conclude with sernlgio garcia, the 2017 masters champion. Watch. And sernlgio. I was much better to committing to what i wanted to do, calming myself down. And accepting what was ha...

Ticket, has said this. I would have stayed out of syria. You guys have a different position on this issue. Well, i think Donald Trumps been very, very clear about his view of the syrian situation, that what we have is an administration that first said we were going to have a reset with russia. Thats been a total failure under Hillary Clintons leadership as secretary of state. President obama said he would ever used chemical weapons against its citizens that there would be consequences. The assad regime did and there were so just to be absolutely clear, governor pence, you just to be absolutely...